June Hatch A Long

[ariri30]

I've got a broody Sebright hen named Moonshine, sitting on 4 Spitzhauben eggs. This should be day 3. I had a pair of Spitzhaubens that I recently sold but I had saved their last eggs in case someone went broody, and Moonshine volunteered. So June 13-14 will be hatch day if all goes well.....
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I have a Sebright that I got from TSC on March 1st. So she’s about 13 weeks. Every one is in love with her. She’s a beautiful bird but very flighty.
I read some where that they don’t go broody. I guess every bird is different.
How many eggs a week does she lay? At how many weeks she started laying? I’m so curious about the breed. Good luck with yours!

 

[SueT]

I have a Sebright that I got from TSC on March 1st. So she’s about 13 weeks. Every one is in love with her. She’s a beautiful bird but very flighty.
I read some where that they don’t go broody. I guess every bird is different.
How many eggs a week does she lay? At how many weeks she started laying? I’m so curious about the breed. Good luck with yours!

Moonshine has gone broody every single month during warm weather! I've realized I have to let her hatch some eggs, so, for her sake, I hope these work out. She's 2 yrs old now. She started laying around 5 months I think, and she lays 5-6 tiny eggs a week, but takes off for all those broody spells, and for the winters. I have put her in the wire cage to break the broodiness each time. She is feisty, and very friendly. I've taught her to fly up onto my arm for a treat. I got her at a local hatchery.

 

[jolenesdad]

Note: MUST GET A SEBRIGHT!!!!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Moonshine has gone broody every single month during warm weather! I've realized I have to let her hatch some eggs, so, for her sake, I hope these work out. She's 2 yrs old now. She started laying around 5 months I think, and she lays 5-6 tiny eggs a week, but takes off for all those broody spells, and for the winters. I have put her in the wire cage to break the broodiness each time. She is feisty, and very friendly. I've taught her to fly up onto my arm for a treat. I got her at a local hatchery.
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Aww! I love this! I have a White Leghorn that flies up on my shoulder but she's currently raising the bitties that she hatched (Leghorns supposedly don't go broody either, lol)
I'm getting some Silver Sebright eggs this Friday, I hope they'll be as pretty and sweet as yours!

 

[ariri30]

Moonshine has gone broody every single month during warm weather! I've realized I have to let her hatch some eggs, so, for her sake, I hope these work out. She's 2 yrs old now. She started laying around 5 months I think, and she lays 5-6 tiny eggs a week, but takes off for all those broody spells, and for the winters. I have put her in the wire cage to break the broodiness each time. She is feisty, and very friendly. I've taught her to fly up onto my arm for a treat. I got her at a local hatchery.
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Wow thanks so much. She’s beautiful.

 

[ariri30]

Aww! I love this! I have a White Leghorn that flies up on my shoulder but she's currently raising the bitties that she hatched (Leghorns supposedly don't go broody either, lol)
I'm getting some Silver Sebright eggs this Friday, I hope they'll be as pretty and sweet as yours!

Good luck!

 

[Tbjenkins2007]

I started in the May, but I realize I need June! I have 30 turkey eggs that I put in last week, candled them today and I have 15 fertile and 7 maybes! I also added 6 crested cream legbars getting pretty excited for turkeys.

I’ll also be adding another incubator to do olive eggers and more cclb that were requested.

So excited for babies

 

[Pekin747]

Hi I'm just wondering if I can join
I'm setting Indian runner eggs this will be my first time to incubate them i have set them under my gold laced wyandotte last August and I bought the drake from England
I'm unsure if they will be fertile as they have a habit of layi g outside but I know roughly where they lay now and I'm working on keeping them in to teach them where to lay (inside)

 

[LaurEliz]

Here are some pictures of my eggs that I candled on May 26. They are significantly more developed now. Of the 18 shipped eggs, 11 are developing. There was one with a blood ring, and one with some scrambled bits of DNA, it looks like, inside of it, so it probably started developing in the mail, is my guess, but I'm not sure.

One of the 11 that are still developing has a detached air cell, completely. It rolls around wherever in the egg. I let them sit for hours before putting them in the incubator, and for the first 5 days, I had them all sitting with the pointy end down. All air cells but that one reattached. I figured it was too scrambled and wouldn't develop anyway and just yesterday saw that there was a moving embryo in it, so I put it back in the egg carton. I've been turning it slightly in the carton when I turn all the others. Can a chick with a fully detached air cell survive? Is it only an issue when it comes to pipping, and if I keep the egg with the pointy end down during hatching, will the chick have a shot? I've never had one develop with a completely detached air cell before.

Here are the ones that are currently alive. I am uncertain on the breeds, so if you have any guesses, I'd be interested in your input.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Can a chick with a fully detached air cell survive?

Yes! I've heard of people successfully hatching chicks with fully detached air cells. I'm sure someone with more experience with help to guide you better than I can but if I remember what I was reading correctly I think it said they kept them upright during the entire incubation.